21-22 April AAAS forum to discuss Pentagon R&D spending, other policy issues
...dition to an opening plenary session on the policy context for the 2006 R&D budget, the forum will include sessions on scientific communication; efforts to change the face of the science and technology workforce; the role of R&D in global economies; science and global health disasters such as AIDS and the co...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives NSF CAREER award
...tively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Providing a comprehensive description for all protein components in a cell present during the various stages of the cell lifecycle is a major challenge. There are efforts across a variety of disciplines to develo...Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...e and engineering possibilities on the harp in the context of practical instrument design. As Chris Waltham of the University of British Columbia ( waltham@physics.ubc.ca ) points out, one must make the soundboard light enough so that it radiates sound efficiently, and the strings tight enough so that they c...Can money grow on trees? Win-win strategies for 'sustainable bioprospecting'
...all or hinder the bargaining procedures. "In this context bioprospecting contracts that provide an environment for mutually beneficial exchange with fair distribution of benefits can only be enabled by well-defined property rights propped up by an enabling contractual environment, enforceable in a transpare...A decade after launch, ERS-2's mission continues
...land surface temperature. This is important in the context of soil moisture, an important parameter for predicting vegetation development." ERS-2's future The spacecraft has been a key link in a chain of European and international missions to provide long-term observation of key environmental variables....Cleaner shrimp use rocking dance to advertise their service to clients
...s many criteria of an economic market, and in this context the shrimp's signals essentially represent "advertising." The work is reported by Justine Becker and colleagues at the University of Queensland.When unrelated animals cooperate, signals may be used by individuals to avoid potential conflicts. For exa...Study identifies possible marker for efficacy of gefitinib in lung cancer patients
...Medical Center, discusses this new research in the context of other recent studies that have examined the factors that may influence the effectiveness of tyrosine kinase inhibitors. "Unfortunately, it appears that it may be easier to accurately predict drug resistance than drug efficacy," he writes. "Until r...Employing ecology to predict and manage emerging infectious diseases
... big-picture framework- considering the ecological context in which disease epidemics arise, and the consequences of disease in ecological systems. One of the main topics discussed at the conference was how ecological systems influence disease dynamics. Consider Lyme disease. The pathogen that transmits infe...'Scientists@work' gives over 1800 Flemish students the chance to work in a biotech lab
...practicing scientists, carried out projects in the context of the Scientists@work competition. On 11 May, a ...ents situate their experimental work in the proper context and supplement it with background information in order to submit it to VIB as a final report. The re...Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
...explanation of their occurrence in an evolutionary context may be elsewhere: namely in some sort of 'display'...n), as suggested by the comparative, phylogenetic, context of plates development among Stegosauria." To investigate further whether the elaborate horny display...Ape computers introduced in the US
...ith the American and the Japanese ones, in a large context that involves not only the insiders. In particular, the Italian Embassy will introduce to the American research community ApeNext (Array Processor Experiment/Next) the forefront supercomputer, result of the collaboration between the National Institut...Temple engineers recieve NSF grant to develop interactive high school biology curriculum
...ists who study past events, but it will do so in a context that is likely to be familiar to students. In the second scenario, Butz said, students will be exposed to the evidence for and against the hypothesis that suggests that Thomas Jefferson fathered the children of Sally Hemings. Students will be charge...Nicotine triggers the same brain reward circuitry as opiates
...e that their findings "suggest that the timing and context of opioid receptor antagonist administration are critical for determining the effectiveness of blocking nicotine reward . . . . Given the results reported here, clinical studies designed to evaluate administration of opioid antagonists just prior to ...Bumblebees copy one another when contending with unfamiliar flowers
...in these decisions has been considered only in the context of deterrence because the small scent marks that foragers leave after emptying flowers dissuade others from visiting. In the new study, the researchers offered bumblebees the choice between several artificial-flower clusters in a laboratory setting. ...Scripps scientists identify target of an immune suppression molecule called CD22itself
...s knew that CD22 was binding to sialic acid in the context of another protein on the surface of the B cell. The question was, what was this target glycoprotein? This has not been so straightforward to answer, says Paulson. "The organization of the cell surface is more complex than you might think." Cells in ...Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate
...yclus anynana. The findings were surprising in the context of the natural world, where dramatic colors and physical features often win the sexual-selection game, according to the UB researchers. "This is one of the first studies to show that such a small pattern element really matters in female choice," said...Identifying blood stem cells is a SLAM dunk
...SLAM markers that we have identified work in every context that we have looked so far -- different mouse strains, old mice, young mice, cytokine-mobilized mice and non-mobilized mice. Using this simple combination of markers, we have achieved very high levels of purity in these cells," said Morrison. The sim...Landscape corridors promote animal, plant dispersal
...standing behavioral approaches is important in any context where you're worried about the spread of organisms through a landscape, like the spread of non-native invasive species or birds that carry diseases."...Study in Royal Society journal on world's only horned rodent
...s and other parents. The present study takes this context into account by applying game theory and epidemic modelling to predict the time evolution of vaccine uptake. The study obtains qualitative agreement with the persussis vaccine scare in Britain during the 1970s. The study also illustrates how volunt...Essential genes for embryogenesis uncovered in major mouse mutagenesis project
...ge. For most genes, direct experimentation in the context of a whole organism will be required." In an effort to explore the functional content of 50 megabases of mouse chromosome 5, or approximately 2% of the genome, Schimenti and his colleagues generated over 1000 mouse pedigrees with random mutations usi...